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*** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***I am out of town (so no resources) and I picked up a small bag of unsearched wheat pennies. I found a 1945 with no mint mark on a thin, dime size, planchette. The front front looks like a fairly clean strike without the edges but the back is quite different. There is a shiney copper shine from the wheat stalks to the edge on one side and on the other, it goes from copper to a nickel or silver tone. The words 'one cent' is fairly clean but has gouges or die marks accross it. These marks are 2 or three slightly curved lines going down from left to right and then another 2 or 3 lines going down from right to left. I can't tell if the lines cross but they do appear to meet. I can't get a good enough picture right now to upload, maybe when I get home... Can anyone give me some idea what I ran across or how I could research it further. Thanks scanned the penny. probably not the best, but will have to do for now   Edited by repete6928
01/20/2012 3:53 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Google cent on dime planchet, or get pics posted here. Without pics it can't be determined if it is an error or just someone with some spare time and a new metal file..lol
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Pillar of the Community
Egypt
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Images would help. There are so many options and we just don't want to guess what you have.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Damaged. Someone worked it over bad.
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Valued Member
United States
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Maybe somebody was trying to fool a machine into thinking it was a dime?
Back when I was a kid we tried to hammer a penny to the size of a nickle to use in vending machines. Let me tell you, that is the hardest I have ever worked for 4 cents. Smashed at least a dime's worth of pennies all to heck trying. Only ever got one to work before I quit that nonsense. Some of my friends claimed a better success rate, but who believes a 10 year old with a hammer?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Your coin has been mangled and damaged, not an error. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Welcome repete. As was already stated, certainly post mint damage. If it's thin, it may have also seen an acid bath during the destruction phase. Believe it or not, the coin will retain most of its features even when bathed in a strong acid for a while. My guess is when that didn't work like they thought it would, someone resorted to tools.....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Aye that looks like a "filed dime" to me. :-)
Would have easily fooled vending machines of the day.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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, repete6928! PMD. Looks like someone filed it down to use as a dime in a vending machine. |
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Posted 01/20/2012 2:58 pm
